Anthomania
These are not bouquets. These are not still lifes. Anthomania transforms flowers into something else entirely: surfaces, patterns, and ornamental fields. Each composition unfolds not as a vase of blooms but as a textile, a wall covering, a digital tapestry alive with impossible botanicals. Artificial intelligence turns nature into decoration, spinning blossoms into surfaces that feel tactile yet remain untouchable. Petals press forward, leaves interlock, and blooms multiply without pause. The illusion is rich, convincing, and uncanny—floral ornament conjured from language, proliferating without end.
At the heart of Anthomania lies the legacy of William Morris, whose designs transformed flowers into endless patterns of textile and wallpaper. Here, that vision is reborn through AI, where the repetition of nature becomes frictionless, infinite, and strangely alive. These are patterns that could never have been hand-drawn: every petal and stamen rendered with hallucinatory clarity, every blossom luminous against grounds of dark green, indigo, or ivory. The influence of Pre-Raphaelite clarity lingers in the detailing, but instead of arranging flowers in vases, the machine arrays them across surfaces, compressing depth into decoration. The result is a hall of mirrors, where ornament expands outward without limit, endlessly reconfiguring itself into new variations.
Yet these works remain illusions. AI does not know what a flower is, nor how a pattern repeats. It has never woven a thread or carved a block for printing, yet it predicts surfaces with persuasive authority, conjuring the idea of textiles that could never exist in the material world. Anthomania occupies this space between nature and ornament, decoration and dream. It is abundance without arrangement, repetition without flaw, pattern without border. In this way, Anthomania becomes both continuation and transformation: a digital extension of the decorative tradition, where flowers never fade, motifs never exhaust themselves, and surfaces bloom into infinity.
